Protection
Protecting our gardens from marauding animals can be quite a task. Over the years I’ve developed various methods for protecting individual plants as well as large plots of edibles. Everyone seems to have methods that work for them. I was at my neighbor’s house yesterday and she tied plastic shopping bags on strings around her garden to keep the deer out.
This works fairly well for her. I have found that for my large vegetable garden, an electric fence is a must to keep deer, turkeys, groundhogs, raccoons, and other pests out.
What methods have you found that work well for these large garden pests?
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Susy, I’ve discovered that the only way for my garden to be safe is a six foot wooden fence with a five foot steel welded fence two feet around the inside perimeter of the wooden fence and a battery powered single strand of electrice fence about 18 inches above ground. It took me three years to build it all but last year was the first year that not a single ear of sweet corn was mangled or destroyed. It was sweet success.
Do you still have a guard dog?
Have a great protection day in the garden.
Nebraska Dave
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Does the bag thing really work? My Mom’s yard in VA is plague by wise deer….
to PennyAshevilleNC's comment